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October 15, 2002
Oh, I’m still here. Don’t you be worrying your pretty little heads about anything. I’ve simply been off the air due to an extended version of the Canadian Thanksgiving Day long weekend. Included in the mix was a multi-day sojourn to the Queen City for my grandma’s 90th birthday, a peruse of a science centre … More
October 9, 2002
Metal salvage yard fence. Ogden Road, Calgary.
October 8, 2002
Just a short note relating the fact that I have added a natty little link pointing to the RSS feed for this here weblog. The aforementioned link currently appears in the upper right hand corner of the page, directly below the ISSN designation. You have no excuse now. Syndicate away.
October 7, 2002
Today is our thirteenth wedding anniversary. No needling, no reminding, no blatantly obvious hints were required. I remember our anniversaries. And to be sure, our anniversaries remind me of things as well. They remind me of how crisp autumn mornings don’t necessarily mean that the only thing coming is winter. They remind me of how … More
October 6, 2002
Remember all those faxes you thought you sent, but didn’t realize they hadn’t made it to their intended recipient until it was too late? Well, maybe it’s because this week’s available domain name is fauxmachine.com, or not.
October 5, 2002
Hmmm…. Looks like something big is happening down in Seattle, kids. It appears that all Getty Images sites sport a similar message this afternoon. Are they finally consolidating the last of the brands under the circus tent roof of gettyimages.com? Maybe some of the “scheduled updates and maintenance” will address the browser issues discussed earlier. … More
October 5, 2002
A couple of additional notes regarding the Getty Images Creative site and their laughingly ineffective browser sniffing and compatibility. It’s obvious that the script being used on the site is aiming specifically at Netscape browsers, otherwise I wouldn’t have been able to witness the obfuscation using iCab (view screen dump) either. Does this company test … More
October 5, 2002
A bunch of sites linked to this late in the week, but it’s just one of those wonderful things that merits as least one more mention. ColorMatch 5K takes the drudgery out of selecting, discovering, and iterating a decent web site color palette. Simple. Elegant. Useful. All that, and only 5k in size. Take it … More
October 4, 2002
Shopping carts and leaves in parking lot. Lake Bonavista Promenade, Calgary.
October 4, 2002
At one point in the not so distant past, I would have ripped a bloody strip off of any site that blocked or discouraged certain browsers or platforms. Lynx was the baseline for accessibility, as far as I was concerned. In fact, I distinctly remember giving the designers and developers of the gettyone.com site a … More